I also recommend Beelink. I’ve been running an eqr6 (ryzen) for almost a year and it’s been awesome.

Maybe I’m overlooking a lot of circumstances that I haven’t encountered. Good call on the open port feature, that’s a big one that I forgot about.

Seriously. I was recently wondering why so many choose tailscale over WireGuard.

In 1999+ you could sniff people’s passwords in clear text right out of the air on public WiFi networks. tcpdump port 110 and just watch them roll in.

In the late 90’s you could use a floppy disk to boot nt and dump the password hashes of anybody who had logged in, then run them through a dictionary attack which would take a matter of minutes before learning that your company’s top employees used their favorite football team or cartoon character as their password without even appending some numbers to it. Dude with the football password even had the password emblazoned in his office wall.

One time in the 90’s I got to a password prompt and just held enter, and eventually was just let past the password prompt.

In X windows if you managed to kill the screensaver password entry box you were dropped back to the desktop, and people found ways to crash the screensaver by overrunning the password input buffer by pasting input repeatedly using common keyboard shortcuts. (Pretty sure this same exact bug exited in early Mac osx versions.)

Before the cloud it was so hard to get a budget for anything, even necessary yearly upgrades. Sometimes I would have to scrap the least important server when a component in a more important one died. Then the cloud came along and suddenly we had so much money to spend! But now it was so hard to track who spent it, what projects it was spent on, and how we could dial it down. SMH. Cloud computing can be so ridiculous.

The desktop ones are great for storage arrays, especially with an LSI controller thrown in.

12 year old MacBook Pro? wtf, this is so greenfield. Some of the best Linux hardware ever.

My favorite dependable cheap Linux host. Just sucks about the power draw.

Reserve time during your week to leave your phone at home, and leave your house for 1-4 hours. Bring a paperback book, oe visit a library and check one out. Go out for coffee and pay with cash. Go to a park with your book and coffee. Maybe bring a sandwich. Promise that you will not leave for an hour even if you start to go crazy.

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What’s Up Tiger Lily

Allen took footage from a Japanese spy film, International Secret Police: Key of Keys (1965), and overdubbed it with completely original dialogue that had nothing to do with the plot of the original film. He both put in new scenes and rearranged the order of existing scenes, producing a one-hour movie from the 93 minutes of the original film. He completely changed the tone of the film from a James Bond clone into a comedy about the search for the world’s best egg salad recipe.

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Welcome to 2001, when we had 56k at home, and corporate broadband 802.11b networks never had passwords.

Freaking awesome start! I will revisit this when it gets to laser printing.

One big problem with GitHub that is only briefly touched on in the article is that developer teams used to be able to use the feed to get useful updates on what their team was working on. Now, it’s polluted with unrelated AI generated suggestions. So for those of us who use Github as an enterprise application, we previously had a user friendly app that helped us get work done, but we now have a user hostile app that participates in the attention economy, luring us with distractions, which are the opposite of what we should be doing at work. The GitHub feed is now anti-focus, anti-work, algorithmic buzz, and enterprises like my employer still pay for that.

https://pages.cloudflare.com/

https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/pages/

Also when watching sports.

Fuckin seriously. No shit it was yesterday, but WHEN? I got like 200 messages “yesterday”, and they didn’t all come in at once.

ujust update